From the Middle Kingdom to the Wild West
OCTOBER 6, 2019
Sunday at 2:30 PM
Presented by the US-China Music Institute of the Bard College Conservatory with the Center for East Asian Studies and the Chinese Railroad Worker’s Project at Stanford University
Part of the 2019 China Now Music Festival
New works by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Zhou Long evoke ancient and modern mythical geographies, including a world premiere about the thousands of Chinese workers who helped to complete the Transcontinental Railroad in the American West.